Like a cultural tempest, a supercharged Puerto Rican culture continues to use the metanarrative of disasters. Culture after hurricane Maria in 2017 processes the trauma of that storm’s passage and its aftermath using themes such as: precarious living in a violent bioregion, colonial government inefficiencies, migration, and the rise of community flows of resilience and resistance. The crises of Capitalocene global climate change merge with the colony’s socio-political situation as twenty-first-century art, history, and literature passionately explore the ways culture can help sustain preparedness and resilience for the coming climate change disasters. Migration remains as a force as potent as any hurricane. We explore literary works from Puerto Rican and Diasporic authors such as Edgardo Miranda-Rodríguez, Ana Lydia Vega, Mayra Santos-Febres, Eduardo Lalo, Tere Dávila, Ramos Isabel and Kisha Tikina Burgos, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Rafael Rodríguez Cruz, Xavier Navarro Aquino, Esmeralda Santiago, E.G. Condé, and others. Artistic images of disaster highlight the non-human alongside the human, with themes of ecology and landscape, infrastructure, memory and grief, resistance and protest. Artivism exposes predatory post-disaster capitalist practices.